Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For Time Warner, the offer marks the latest move to pursue the vision of global expansion that executives saw when Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications in 1989. Since then, the company has sought joint ventures with other major firms, both for strategic reasons and to gain a cash infusion. But...
One challenge for Latinos is to craft new election boundaries that will ensure winnable districts without aggravating Hispanics' tense relationships with blacks. In Houston, for example, blacks and browns have clashed over school-board realignments and a proposed city council expansion. "The big question is, Where do you draw the...
Since last summer, a flurry of crushing financial blows has turned an already brutal culling process into a full-scale rout. The airlines were loaded with debt after a decade of mergers, frantic expansion and multibillion-dollar orders for new aircraft. The approach of the gulf war brought a sharp...
Yeltsin has promised to resurrect private farming on a grand scale, making land available to every peasant who wants to till his own fields rather than toil for a collective or state farm. Russia already has a private-property law on the books, though Gorbachev gags at endorsing one for...
In fact, the economy seems to be headed for a return to the same type of feeble expansion that saw the GNP rise just 2.5% in 1989 and about 1% in the first half of 1990, before the downturn took hold. "The recession is just one part of the big...